Prime Time Early Learning Centers

Someone emailed me and asked me to remove my review. I think that defeats the purpose of Unilocal,and that itself seems a sneaky practice. Let the public decide what standards are acceptable and what are not.
I knew what I was looking for in a school, so the school’s response to my review about my preferences or criticisms being too stringent (so I should just hire a nanny) are ridiculous and just immature.
A few months later, I enrolled my child at Our Children’s Academy, also in Edgewater. And my baby thrived there. While still considering enrollment, OCA’s administration had no problems letting me shadow & watch the video cams from the office until I was comfortable with how the infant room operated. The teachers are experienced, warm, and they do their best to make sure each child is taken care even in a group setting.
Moms & dads you know what’s best for your baby so trust your gut.

I now have my second child enrolled in Prime Time Early Learning Center in Edgewater. My daughter had such good experiences there, and was more than ready when she went into Kindergarten. Its a big center in an old church school, kinda hard to find up off River Road, but worth it. Its always clean and fresh inside. I like that its big because it helps my child get ready for real school. When comparing it with other child care centers we really like the big open space, the two outside playgrounds and the roomy inside playground. The staff here are really nice, and many have been there a long time which means a lot to us. Good people are really attentive to the kids. My cousin brings her son here, too. Also very happy. Nothing I can really complain about, except maybe there summer camp doesn’t have a pool.

I was very impressed by this school. I did a tour or my two children, the space is large, clean and the teachers are all friendly. The children also looked very happy

Both my children are enrolled here because we have come to trust the caring staff. Our 9 month old loves her Snugglies caregivers. While the room is well managed overall, my daughter feels nurtured. A sensitive baby, her daily smiles and reach-​outs for the caregivers every morning assures me that this is the case. Also my toddler son, who has been here as an 8 month old and is now in pre k 3, loves the entire staff and classmates. We have made many good parent friends. There is a sense of village care here so many eyes are on our kids to help keep everyone safe and encouraged. Within this environment he has not only developed strong social skills and confidence but his verbal and creative skills continue to grow and meet milestones. Like any important resource like this I’ve learned that it takes initial effort and open communication on both sides to make it work well.

I hope my review really helps moms who want to send her loving child to daycare. I sent my 1 year old baby to Primetime for 3 months (Apr.2014~Jul 2014). He was sick all the time since he went to daycare and even got ‘hand foot mouse’ disease from one of his classmates but it was severe so he had to drop. He only attended two days in July and we paid for a whole month and they did not give any of the tuitions back even we gave notice right after he got sick. I am ok with that.
Problem is that we contacted Primetime to get our deposit back at least 15 times and still haven’t got it. It’s been three months. Every time I call Jan (VP or supervisor), she said she will call me back and never got her return call. Many times she was on vacation or was not around. I am so sick of chasing them to give me the deposit and it is not big at all. I called them this morning and spoke to Jan about that. She sounded really bothered and hung up after saying «will call you in 5 mins.» but again never got her call back.
These people are not trustworthy at all and so glad my son is not going there anymore. Only reason I sent my son there was that all other daycare around my area was full and had to wait for many months. No wonder why Primetime is not full.

I enrolled my baby and then withdrew a day before she was to start. I went in to set up her crib in the infant room and observed for 2.5 hours. Incredibly disappointed. I provided this exact list to the director and she was initially defensive but did refund me my registration fees. I’m sharing here because I thought other parents of infants should know before you consider nursery enrollment. I’m adding one star because the classrooms for older kids look better maintained and suitable for the age range.
UNACCEPTABLE
–Bottle propping when feeding infants who are not yet able to hold their bottles up (this results in much leakage and many dropped bottles)
–Ms. Judy throwing toys into the soft playpen. The children in this pen are mobile and there was huge risk of a child being hit by a toy.
–Feeding the same bottle of formula (not cow’s milk) to a child past an hour of the first attempt. It’s recommended to toss unconsumed formula an hour after a baby has touched the nipple for fear of contamination, but this precaution was not taken by multiple caregivers in the afternoon.
NOT IDEAL BUT PASSABLE
–Exersaucers and various toys not cleaned after use by a child. Not even after use by three different children. When the babies aren’t sick at all, this is relatively harmless, but if ONE baby had a runny nose, then all the babies that came into contact with the exersaucers would be exposed to illness.
–Overuse of swings – there was one child who was napping in a swing for two hours. He was then given a bottle (he was able to hold it up himself), then diapered, then placed back in the swing. No other activities were encouraged. Basically, this child spent about 3 – 4 hours in the swing.
–One caregiver was feeding one child some dry snacks, and while she did that, she ate some herself.
–There is toy sharing – each child’s toys are stored separately in their respective containers, but often there was toy sharing (i.e. the contents of two children’s toy boxes distributed across four children).

My son has been attending Primetime since he was 6 months old. We visited Primetime and Our Children’s Academy. Primetime is set up like a school and we felt more at home than Our Children’s Academy.
Ms. Julia was his teacher in the Snugglies room and she is amazing. She answered any questions that my husband had since he was doing the drop off and pick up. He learned so much from her on raising an infant. She is warm and caring. All of his teachers in each of the classroom are great and he is now 22 months. He also is very social with all the other toddlers and does not shy away from new people.
When he was about 9 months old, I took my mom (she watches him 3 days a week) to PrimeTime. We expected him to stick with my mom and myself, but when his teacher came him, he quickly went to her. The teachers are very loving with the children and treat them like their own.

My daughter LOVES coming to school every morning! The teachers are caring and loving. This center has a lot to offer and my family is blessed to have found it. Our child is getting the proper care she needs and is learning new things everyday. I would highly recommend this center to anyone.

My son has really enjoyed Prime Time – the staff is caring and kind and there are great activities for the little ones.